Here’s when and where Dusty Spencer’s execution is scheduled. The 74-year-old would be the ninth person Florida has put to death in 2026.

STARKE, Fla. -- A Florida man who confessed to killing his girlfriend's infant daughter and throwing her body in a pond three decades ago was executed Tuesday evening. Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. after receiving a three ...

Florida accounted for nearly half of all U.S. executions in 2025, a year that saw the most executions nationwide since 2009. A new Amnesty International report notes a 78% global increase in executions in 2025 compared to the previous year. Florida ...

But defense attorneys for the inmates and anti-death-penalty advocates have accused the Florida Department of Corrections of violating the U.S. Constitution by allegedly using expired execution drugs, the wrong drugs, or insufficient amounts, and unnecessarily subjecting the inmates to cruel and unusual punishment during their executions.

Florida executed Andrew Richard Lukehart for the 1996 murder of a 5-month-old baby after courts denied final appeals.

Andrew Lukehart is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1996 murder of 5-month-old Gabrielle Hanshaw in Duval County.

Andrew Lukehart is scheduled to be executed in Florida for the 1996 murder of a five-month-old baby. Lukehart was on probation for felony child abuse of another infant at the time of the murder. Florida has accelerated its execution pace, with advocates ...

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